reality bites Archives - Vinyl From The Vault https://vinylfromthevault.com/tag/reality-bites/ Fri, 19 Nov 2021 00:10:56 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 198238920 The Knack “My Sharona” https://vinylfromthevault.com/the-knack-my-sharona-1-on-the-us-charts-this/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-knack-my-sharona-1-on-the-us-charts-this Wed, 09 Sep 2015 15:24:31 +0000 http://box2101.temp.domains/~vinylfro/?p=3924 The Knack “My Sharona” #1 on the US charts this week in 1979. 45 rpm. B-side “Let Me Out.” “My Sharona” was the debut single by The Knack, an infectious power-pop/early new wave song about guitarist Berton Averre’s girlfriend, Sharona, who appears on this mocked-up photo of the single’s picture sleeve. “My Sharona” spent 6 weeks at #1 [...]

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]]> The Knack “My Sharona” #1 on the US charts this week in 1979. 45 rpm. B-side “Let Me Out.” “My Sharona” was the debut single by The Knack, an infectious power-pop/early new wave song about guitarist Berton Averre’s girlfriend, Sharona, who appears on this mocked-up photo of the single’s picture sleeve.

“My Sharona” spent 6 weeks at #1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 and also reached #1 in Canada and Australia. It re-entered the charts in 1994 after appearing on the Reality Bites soundtrack in probably one of the best scenes from the movie. It has also been parodied/re many times over the years, most notably by Weird Al Yankovic’s “My Bologna” and Dead Kennedy’s “Pull My Strings” (chorus: “My Payola”).

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